Lenovo Li: Do not rule out the acquisition of IT outsourcing market

After 3 years of running, Lenovo's IT desktop outsourcing business has won the first place in the market and has honoured its commitment three years ago. Recently, Lenovo Group vice president of China service director Li said in an interview, Lenovo has won the IT desktop outsourcing business 5% of the market share.

According to the latest data from IDC, the Market Research institute last month, the overall size of China's desktop IT outsourcing market exceeded 3 billion yuan in the first half of 2014, an increase of 15% per cent. Among them, Lenovo surpassed HP for the first.

But from a market-share perspective, Lenovo surpassed only 1% of its rivals. This is far below Lenovo's expectations for future IT outsourcing markets. "Lenovo it Desktop outsourcing business future goal is to become the market absolute first, market share to achieve the sum of the top three, to 20%." "Li said.

Currently, the desktop IT market is a more fragmented market in the IT service market, with more markets being occupied by regional and small companies. But Li believes that as the Chinese force costs continue to rise, enterprise-class customers will gradually seek more professional service providers, which is Lenovo's IT desktop outsourcing market space. "We do not rule out the possibility of accelerating the market for it desktop outsourcing by mergers and acquisitions, as well as the penetration of the overall IT outsourcing market share." Li also revealed.

Since Lenovo acquired IBMX86, Lenovo's server, PC and mobile side of the formation of complementary, Lenovo's enterprise-class business to achieve rapid growth. Lenovo Group China's IT Management Services and Enterprise service Business Department general manager Lin that the internationalization of mergers and acquisitions so that Lenovo tasted the sweetness, next, Lenovo will provide corporate customers with overall IT management services, including from the desktop to the data center, to the overall network of IT management services to the overall solution.

"The barrel effect of Lenovo's IT outsourcing service has emerged. "Lin said, including Lenovo's enterprise-class product line coverage, and with EMC set up a joint venture to do storage, the introduction of the Thinkcloud cloud solution, etc., for Lenovo to provide enterprise customers from the desktop to it as a whole service lay the foundation.

Lin also revealed that desktop outsourcing customers already have 3% to 5% of the size of customers, Lenovo is providing them with the overall IT services. And with the help of the government to encourage outsourcing policy, "Dongfeng" will be Lenovo's future IT outsourcing business opportunities.